nine-point circle
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Mathematics Project(2)<The Nine-point Circle>4B 12, 23, 37, 38, 39, 41
1. Basic Concepts
1a. Related knowledge: Perpendicular feet
The point on the leg
opposite a given vertex
of a triangle at which
the perpendicular
passing through that
vertex intersects the
side.
1a. Related knowledge: Orthocenter
The interjection of the
three perpendicular
feet(or altitudes) of a
triangle.
1a. Related knowledge Centroid (of a triangle) The intersecting point
of three medians of a
triangle.
Median: A line
segment drawn from
one vertex to the
midpoint of the
opposite side.
1b. Definition
The circle has 9 points on the circumference, which are: Three mid-points of the
sides of a triangle(M); Three perpendicular feet
drawn from the vertices of the triangle to the nearest base(H); and
The mid-points of the segments that join the vertices and the orthocenter(E).
2. History of Nine-Point Circle
2a. First raise of the Nine-Point Circle
Benjamin Beven, a English mathematician ,
first raised the problem of nine-point circle in
an English magazine in 1804.
2b. First being proved
The first person who proved the problem
raised by Benjamin Beven is reasonable was
Charles Brainchon, a French mathematician
There is another claim that the prove was
done by Joseph Gergonne and Brainchon.
2c. Raised of Properties of Nine-Point Circle A German geometer,
Karl Wilhelm Feuerbach has investigated about the nine-point circle too.
《直邊三角形的一些特殊點的性質》 Including some
important properties of nine-point circle
3. Properties of the Nine-Point Circle
3a. The Radius
The radius of the nine-point circle is half of the radius of its circumradius.
Circumcircle: For any triangle there is always a circle passing through its three vertices. Circumradius: Radius
of circumcircle
3b. The Center
The center of the nine-point circle is the midpoint of the Euler line.
Euler line: A line which is produced by joining the orthocenter and the centroid of a triangle.
3c. The Feuerbach’s Theorem
Incircle: The unique circle
that is tangent to each of
the triangle's three sides.
Excircle: The circle
tangent to the extended
two nonadjacent sides of a
triangles and to the other
side of the triangle.
3c. The Feuerbach’s Theorem(Continue)
The nine-point circle of
a triangle “touches” the
incircle and the three
excircles.
3d. Identical nine-point circle
All triangles inscribed in a
given circle (to
circumscribe) and having
the same orthocenter, have
the same nine-point circle.
Circumscribe: The
vertices of the polygon are
on the circumference of the
circle.
The End
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